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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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How would you phrase this sentence?
The phone had fallen / come off the hook and the line/phone (rang) busy.
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The phone had fallen / come off the hook and the line/phone (rang) busy.
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When a phone goes off-hook without use for a set period of time, the receiver will emit a sound called the "off-hook alarm" or "off-hook" tone, which is much different from a busy signal. In the UK and old US systems, its a loud, warbling sound much like an ambulance siren. In the US, it's an annoying staccato tone, on and off at intervals of a tenth of a second.
- When a phone goes off-hook without use for a set period of time, the receiver will emit a sound called the "off-hook alarm" or "off-hook" tone, which is much different from a busy signal.
- In the UK and old US systems, its a loud, warbling sound much like an ambulance siren.
- In the US, it's an annoying staccato tone, on and off at intervals of a tenth of a second.
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When a phone goes off-hook without use for a set period of time, the receiver will emit a sound called the "off-hook alarm" or "off-hook" tone, which is much different from a busy signal. In the UK and old US systems, its a loud, warbling sound much like an ambulance siren. In the US, it's an annoying staccato tone, on and off at intervals of a tenth of a second.
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If the phone is busy , do you say ring busy, is busy or line is busy or the line rang busy?
is it incorrect and not natural to say "the phone receiver had fallen off its hook"?
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is it incorrect and not natural to say "the phone receiver had fallen off its hook"?
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"It's busy," "the line is busy," and "I got a busy signal" are all acceptable.
"Ringing" is never used with "busy," because these are mutually exclusive states in telephony.
Technically, the receiver sits in a cradle, which activates the hook switch. When the receiver is out of the cradle, the switch is off, and the phone is off-hook. At which point you talk to someone or you r
"Ringing" is never used with "busy," because these are mutually exclusive states in telephony.
Technically, the receiver sits in a cradle, which activates the hook switch. When the receiver is out of the cradle, the switch is off, and the phone is off-hook. At which point you talk to someone or you r
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